Title
On tracking for the PVTOL model with bounded feedbacks
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2011
Abstract
We study a class of feedback tracking problems for the planar vertical takeoff and landing (PVTOL) aircraft dynamics, which is a benchmark model in aerospace engineering. After a survey of the literature on the model, we construct new feedback stabilizers for the PVTOL tracking dynamics. The novelty of our contribution is in the boundedness of our feedback controllers and their applicability to cases where the velocity measurements may not be available, coupled with the uniform global asymptotic stability and uniform local exponential stability of the closed loop tracking dynamics, the generality of our class of trackable reference trajectories, and the input-to-state stable performance of the closed loop tracking dynamics with respect to actuator errors. Our proofs are based on a new bounded backstepping result. We illustrate our work in a tracking problem along a circle. © 2011 AACC American Automatic Control Council.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Proceedings of the American Control Conference
First Page
1428
Last Page
1433
Recommended Citation
Gruszka, A., Malisoff, M., & Mazenc, F. (2011). On tracking for the PVTOL model with bounded feedbacks. Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 1428-1433. https://doi.org/10.1109/acc.2011.5990817